So, as it took me a long time to build these datasets and even if the datasets were already available on the github project, i want to make it publicly available and define the metadata properly so anyone can reuse them freely. The only licence i’m putting it on is Creative Commons, so you’re free to use it, re-adapt it, publish based on it, or use it for commercial purposes, as long as you mention me (Olivier Girardot <o.girardot (at) lateral-thoughts.com>) as author.

mvn-deps consists in all the Maven artifacts extracted from Maven central repositories and mvn-minimal-deps is the minimal set of dependencies you need to for going offline with Maven, once uncompressed both files are a simple tab-separated csv document with the following columns :

I’d be glad that following Hilary Mason posts on sharing data with academics some publications were to use these datasets, if any does, please feel free to comment on this blog post to link to your remixed work.